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Chapter 8

The Truth About Annie

At 1900 hours when the three members of SG-1 arrived at Jack's house, they found Charlie and Anne already there. They also found Jacob, Bray'tac, and Rya'c there as well. Charlie had asked them to come as moral support for Annie. They knew the story she had to tell that night, and knew that for everyone involved, support would be necessary. Jacob personally thought massive amounts of alcohol would also be needed, but decided against suggesting that to Charlie or Jack.

Sam, Daniel, and Teal'c arrived at the same time. Sam came by herself while Daniel had brought Teal'c, since he didn't have his car anymore, he had given that up alone with his off base apartment. Charlie quickly ushered them into the living room and took drink orders. He was covering his nervousness with constant movement, Annie was sitting the guest bedroom with Rya'c, Bray'tac, and Jacob, they were trying to keep her from either have a panic attack or from thinking too much about what she was about to do. What she would be saying that night would change lives forever, and she was terrified of the possible reactions.

Jack was hovering around, trying to stay out of Charlie's way as his son burned energy playing the perfect host. With Charlie rushing around, Jack had nothing to do, so he occupied himself by doing his two favorite things in the world, watched Sam, and did his best to make her laugh. He wasn't at the grill burning meat, because Charlie and Anne had thought it best to tell their story first, although with the way Anne was freaking out Jack was beginning to think that eating first was a better idea. "Hey, Charlie, why don't we eat first? Then everyone can calm down. Although I have no clue what is so huge that she needs two Jaffa and a Tok'ra to keep her calm, or semi-calm, or whatever."

Charlie stopped moving, and for a moment he was completely still, something none of the four people in the living room had ever seen him do, "Annie doesn't get scared often. I mean, she's the adopted daughter of one of the most feared false gods in the galaxy, her husband, well they don't come worse than him. She learned to deal with fear before she really knew what it was.

But this scares her. She's going to change peoples lives tonight, she's going to hurt people tonight, and that's something she hates. This is a girl who lies to her husband consistently about where she is, a girl who has set up dozens of safe planets for the Rebel Jaffa, and has the complete respect of all the leaders of that movement. Well I don't know if she has your respect Teal'c and you're obviously a leader of the movement, but you guys get what I mean. She's forced the Tok'ra to not only take her seriously, and you know how hard that is, but also to trust her. Which is even harder, actually. The Ancients consider Annie to be special, hence why she gets Ascended guardians, and not just me, they've given me help. I'm in charge of a team of three others who also look after her. We get special rules too. Unlike all the Others, who can't interfere without running the risk of being descended, like Dr. J here, we can interfere and we do constantly. We haven't blown up a sun, or tried to help people Ascend, but we do our best to influence the System Lords and try to at least keep them from attacking Earth every week. We've actually gotten them down to every other week. With some more time, and a ton of work we think we can get them down to once a month, that would be an all time low, at least an all time low since the Tauri started killing System Lords ands other snakeheads right and left. Annie deals with the pressure of exposure consistently as well, I mean she's a spy and a rebel agent, she lives in constant fear, not only of her husband but of the System Lords. And this is terrifying for her, because you, the four of you terrify her."

"Wow, that's the longest I've ever heard an O'Neill speak. You sure you're related to Jack?" Daniel grinned, unsure how Anne was going to hurt anyone, after all she seemed like such a sweet girl.

"Yeah, pretty sure," Charlie was glad that Daniel had broken the suddenly dark mood of the room.

"So, you've know Anne for seven years?" Jack asked, changing the subject slightly, and trying to be a father again, after almost a decade of being out of practice.

"No, more like eight. The Others knew Annie was special pretty much, well I think they always knew she would be special. I was assigned to her the moment she was born. So that's one year of accelerated growth, and seven of normal growth, so if I haven't lost the ability to do basic math that's eight years with Annie. We've always been together, and we always will be. Like she said, we're linked; she can't leave me and I can't leave her. That's the way it works. I didn't get a team until later though."

"You mentioned Orlin, when did he join your team?" Sam asked Orlin was after all someone who she had an interest in.

"I got Orlin shortly after that weapon-thing with you. I think that the Others were angry at him and thought foisting him off on me would be an apt punishment. I got Skarra, shortly after he Ascended, and my third, and the required redhead of the intergalactic version of Charlie's Angels, I got last year."

"The intergalactic version of Charlie's Angels? Charlie, what on earth did you watch when you were a kid?" Sam giggled.

"No giggling Carter," Jack grinned at her, "And he watched normal TV when he was a kid. Right, Charlie?"

"Right. Besides if I have to be Ascended, and have a team of three other Ascended people, one who's blonde, one who's brunette, and a redhead, I might as well have some fun. Of course my blonde and brunette are both guys, and neither one get the Charlie's Angels reference, but that's okay, Annie doesn't get it either but she laughs, which is the whole point."

"So who's your redhead? You didn't mention her as one of those who doesn't get the reference, so who is it?"

"That's not what tonight is for. Maybe another time, but tonight is definitely not for that bombshell," Charlie was suddenly nervous again. He was up and moving again, asking quickly, "Uh, does anyone want anything more to drink?"

"No Charlie, no one wants anything to drink. What was that about a bombshell?" Jack smiled at his son's evasion tactics, mainly because they were Jack's evasion tactics.

"Oh, okay, I'm going to go see if Annie has stopped hyperventilating, or whatever," Charlie practically ran from the room. He put into practice a primary strategy of evasion as taught by Jack O'Neill, when in doubt, run.

"Annie, you have to calm down, they will not hate you, and he will not hate you. If anything, he's going to want to keep you here where you're safe and he can keep an eye on you. But you won't be hated," Jacob said soothingly, using Charlie's nickname for her to try to calm her.

"How? How do you know Jacob? I always knew I would have to do this one day, but I never thought I would be this scared. I don't scare easy Jacob, why does this terrify me?" Anne said trying to reason her way through her fear.

"Lady Anne, this day terrifies you because you must admit to something that happened seven years ago, and that you had no control over. You must admit to something that you have spent seven years working to correct, even though you have caused no pain to others, even though you have cause no harm to others. You are terrified Lady Anne, because you must tell them who you are, and must admit it to yourself." Bray'tac's words were more comforting to Anne than Jacob's.

"Rya'c, you aren't going to say anything?" she gave her longtime friend a weak smile.

"You know what you must do Annie. You know you are afraid and I have faith that you will conquer that fear. You are strong, just as your parents are strong. Remember Annie, I have faith in you, as does Charlie. No matter what happens, we will be with you," Rya'c was even more comforting, and she was nearly ready to face what Charlie would call a firing squad, she wasn't sure what that was but it didn't sound good.

"Annie?" Charlie's voice broke through her still panic fogged brain. "Ready?"

"No, but I have to do this. They deserve to know. He deserves to know," she said putting on her game face and faking nearly all of her confidence.

Charlie stepped in front of her, and put his hands on her shoulders, forcing her to look him in the eye, "I'm here for you, so are Jake, Bray'tac, and Rya'c. No matter what happens in there, we are here for you. Now, go get em tiger."

"Where do you get these silly expressions? I'm ready now," she laughed lightly.

"Really?" Charlie asked.

"No, but I don't have a choice do I?"

"Well, we've got the oldest and wisest of the Tok'ra here, the host is a ret. Air Force Major General, we also have a former First Prime and his young student, I think we could stage a jail break and get you out of here. Don't think we would make it to the Stargate though." Charlie grinned, she was ready now.

"Why do I put up with you? You are a pain in the mikta, you know," she teased as she walked out of the room, faking her confidence entirely.

"Cause you love me?" Charlie tossed back to her.

"Really? I've been trying to get rid of you for seven years."

"Only seven? You mean you liked me that first year?"

"The first year was strange enough on its own, an invisible dead friend made it interesting."

"Oh, what happened after that?"

"The novelty wore off. And I got to know you." She said as she stepped into the living room and faced the four people who she had been taught to hate and fear, and who the reality of who she was made her fear because of her basic human fear of rejection.

"I believe I promised you an explanation as to why digging for information on me is a very bad idea." She began, sounding more confident than she felt.

"Yes, you did. So why is it a bad idea? And who are you, by the way?" Jack replied, leaning back in his chair.

"May I sit, General?" Anne stalled briefly, meeting Jack's stare with her own.

"Of course, please have a seat Milady" he quipped.

"Thank you sir," Anne sat in the chair opposite Daniel. Charlie, Jacob, Bray'tac, and Rya'c stood quietly behind her.

"Let me begin at the beginning, it is the best place to begin a story is it not?"

"Usually," was Jack's only reply. Sam shot a glare at Jack, his attitude was bizarre, and not helping what was obviously a terrifying situation for Anne.

"My name as I told you is Anne Katherine. This is an extraordinarily unusual name off Earth, my mother gave me the name, even though she was not Tauri. My father, however, was Tauri.

I told you that my adoptive parents were the false gods Apophis and Ammounet. There is a very good reason why they were the ones who 'raised' me, if you can call it that. My birth mother was Ammounet's last host. Sha're. My birth father, naturally was her husband, Dr. Daniel Jackson. I know it was your belief Dr. Jackson, that the child Sha're carried died when she was taken as a host. And I should have died. But she was far enough along that I was simply born early. The Goa'uld would normally not use their technology to save a premature baby, but Ammounet was greater affected by Sha're's love for her child and insisted that Apophis save me. He loved Ammounet, she was his whole world, and yes I know it is strange to say such a thing about such a truly evil person. Apophis saved my life, and he quickly realized what an advantage he had acquired. He held a hostage that the Tauri didn't know about, he saw almost immediately how far the Tauri, and especially SG-1 would go to save a life. A child's life, he saw was even more precious, and he believed that the child of a member of SG-1 would give him an enormous advantage. So he kept me, let Ammounet name me, and did not make me a host, since he believe I was more valuable as a non-host, and he could always threaten to make me a host if SG-1 ever discovered me and tried to take me from him. Ammounet was heavily influence by her host and so gave me a name that constantly reminded Sha're of her husband. Anne, the name of Dr. Jackson's mother, and Katherine, the name of the woman who brought Dr. Jackson to the Stargate Project and thus to Sha're. Apophis accelerated my growth because he had little time for baby's and with his plans for a Haresies child, Ammounet being constantly occupied by a baby was not in his best interest. Normally he would have handed me off to a retainer or servant, but he trusted no one, in a way he didn't even trust Ammounet, and he thought the best way for me to retain my value and remain under his complete control was to accelerate my age. Aging me to ten-years-old took a year, and at that point had been defeated by the Tauri and was losing territory quickly to the other System Lords. He needed to hold off one particularly ambitious System Lord. I believe you know him General, Lord Baal. To keep Lord Baal from ousting him, he offered Baal a deal. Baal would leave him and all his territory alone, and Baal received a gift, me. Baal officially made me his wife, but like Apophis understood the importance of keeping me snake free, he knew very well the threat of that could come in handy one day, so I've been saved the pleasure of being made a host.

I have spent the last seven years working with first Charlie and then the other members of his team as well the Tok'ra and the Rebel Jaffa to undermine and overthrow the System Lords. My position with Baal is a precarious one at best, but I do have some influence over him and through him and his considerable ambition and ego, I can influence and monitor the System Lords. The planet I live on Kalialia, is not an Asguard protected planet, but there is no civilization on the planet. The only people who live on Kalialia are myself, my household, my Jaffa guards, all of whom are members of the Rebel Jaffa, and there are camps of Rebel Jaffa scattered around the planet. The Tok'ra also hide on Kalialia whenever they need a safe place to stay for a short time. I am completely willing to give the Tauri the gate address of Kalialia, any teams or people in need of a safe haven are welcome. Baal never journeys there, since he is my Lord and God I must journey to him when he wishes to see me. Sometimes he demands I remain with him for months at a time, other times he merely sees me for a few moments, and sometimes he ignores my existence for months at a time. He is unpredictable, as you know General. I feel as though I must apologize to you General. Whilst you were Baal's prisoner, I was on Kalialia, that was one of the times that he was ignoring me, but I still feel as though I should have known where you were. I am sorry that I could not help you General, so truly sorry.

Earlier today I spoke of the possibility that I would be sending something to Earth later in the year for safekeeping. For seven years, my husband and lord physically ignored me, he was waiting for me to grow up more, as well as the fact that he needed more time to make me completely dependent and subservient to him…What he never counted on was that I am no ones servant and I am independent, not dependent. But still two months ago he decided that I was ready for the plans he had for me. I am not pregnant at this time, but it is my husband's intention that I will bear him a child before the year is out." Her final words were soft, almost to quiet to hear. But in the absolute silence of the room, everyone heard.

"You intend to send the baby to Earth, instead of letting Baal keep the child," Sam understood Anne's intentions about the child she would have no choice but to have.

"Yes, that is my intention. The child will be at least part Tauri, and will be safe here," Anne said just as quietly as before.

"Let me get this straight, I'm a father, Apophis raised my daughter and married her off to Baal, who has definite plans to make me a grandfather for the year is over?" Daniel was sitting in shock. He had believed the baby had died, and instead she was sitting across from him, a young woman who was fighting the same war he was. "I-I don't know what to say…" Daniel said looking at Anne carefully for the first time, realizing why she seemed so familiar, her facial expressions, the way she moved, everything about her except her eyes was Sha're. Her blue eyes came from him.

Charlie grinned, "Would 'Hi Dad' be appropriate, Annie?"